We don't have a server as such at the office....everyone uses stand alone computers. However, we are thinking about switching to a server based system at the office. I think one advantage of that would be that everyone could see and work from whatever was on the server, at least while they were at the office....that they would have, more or less, dumb terminals on their desk, all connected to a well-backed-up (and probably fast) computer/server which would contain all the programs and data.

If this (the above) is possible, and I assume it is, one of the reasons I have been reluctant to switch to a server based system is that I work at home a lot or at coffee shops and want to have up-to-date files with me at those times. My solution, to date, has been to use one laptop, and carry it around with me, backing up frequently with gsrync. I use it (the same laptop) at the office, at home and elsewhere. So I am always up to date, but staff can't work on the stuff in my computer. So, if I want them to, for example, format something I am doing, I email it to them.

I would appreciate any comments on the foregoing. It seems to me that freenx might free me up to make the switch to a server based system, if there was no (or little) performance degradation.

There was an error message indicating that the following statements were needed in sshd_config: AllowUsers nx AllowGroups nx

I added them, but once I did that, I had to add additional AllowUsers and AllowGroups statements for any other user accounts that needed to connect to the box via SSH. No big deal, though.

When I issued # ./nxserver --adduser your_user_name_here

There was a message indicating that adding users was no longer required (or something to that effect). Evidently it was required in an earlier version.

Thanks for the help - not only is it much faster than x11vnc, but also the screen resolution flexibility is fantastic. I have it running in a 1440x900 window on a 24 inch monitor that is set for 1920x1080 in Windows.

It suggests that you change sshd_config that way. But that is only important if you control which users can ssh your box.I dont, so I didn't make that change. I allow all local user accounts to log in via ssh. That step is optional.

the warning you saw may have been related to the sshd_config change.But you're right... this thing is mighty fast. I use it on a daily basis.

I started the nxclient program before I installed the server just to see what it looked like but I didn't go any farther than the starting screen. I then installed and started the nxserver and attempted to open the client again. This time, it gave this error message: ./nxclient: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /usr/NX/lib/libXcomp.so.3)